50g

tooshorttoremain wrote:
> i have found many info on the net but neither worked.  i have put the 
> file on an sd. and then i copy it to the port 2. then i soft reset it ( 
> i press on and f3 together). and it is attached . i got it till now, 
> but how do i run the program. is there an execute button im missing?

One thing about the HP-50G: there are a lot of modes and settings and 
different ways to do things that will affect how you do things.  I will 
assume, for this explanation, that you have set flag 117 to use SOFT 
menus instead of CHOOSE menus.  Do that first, please.  (Press MODE, 
then F1 to get to FLAGS, then scroll down and make sure that flag 117 is 
set to "SOFT menu", then OK and OK.)  Now most (but not all) of the 
menus will present themselves on the menu line instead of popping up a 
box; you can choose items with one of the top row of keys, the F-keys, 
F1 through F6.  There's a lot of useful things this allows you to do, 
which the CHOOSE-menus will not allow, which you will find out about later.

How you run the program depends on the particular program and what the 
programmer wanted to do.  Some programs attach themselves to the APPS 
menu, in which case, press APPS and pick it from the list.  If your does 
not appear in the APPS list, it may be a LIBRARY, in which case, press 
the orange RIGHT-SHIFT key, then the 2 key, to get to the LIB menu.  Now 
the attached libraries will be displayed on the menu line.  Look for the 
library you attached.  If you don't see it, press NXT until you do.  If 
you find it, press the key for that menu item, and the commands from 
that library should be displayed.  Now you can press one of the F-keys 
to run the command.  (You may have to have some items on the stack if 
the command is a math operation or something like that.)

If you DON'T find it, it's possible the program was not a LIBRARY, which 
means it was either a DIRECTORY, or simply a PROGRAM, in which case you 
have to do something else; let me know.


-- 
Dave Boyd
"If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall
  like a house of cards. Checkmate."  -Capt. Zapp Brannigan, D.O.O.P.